JERUSALEM, Israel -- Air raid sirens warning of an incoming rocket sent residents of Sderot scurrying to their bomb shelters Thursday evening as the day's Independence Day celebrations neared an end.
It was the third time Gaza-based Islamists fired rockets at Israel since the end of Operation Protective Edge last August.
In response to the attack, Israeli troops targeted the launch site near Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip with artillery fire.
Thursday night's attack was the first since December, when Gaza-based terrorists ended 2014 with sparse rocket fire, prompting an airstrike on a Hamas base near Khan Younis in southern Gaza.
Several Knesset members and southern regional council leaders urged the government to respond forcefully to the attack to squelch another round of rocket barrages by Gaza-based terrorists.
The government also cancelled permission for Gaza residents to attend Friday prayers on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City.
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